Milo Kearney has been professor of history at the University of Texas-Pan American in Brownsville since 1970. Prior to that time, he served as assistant in medieval history at Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, discussion section leader and reader in medieval history at the University of California at Berkeley, and English teacher at the American Institute in Barcelona, Spain.He received his master's and doctorate in history at the University of California at Berkeley. His undergraduate studies were in geology at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1982, he received the Minnie Stevens Piper Award for outstanding college teaching. He was honor graduate at the Fort Meade Army Intelligence School.